Current VentureOn Participants

The Venture Development Center serves as home to many of our student & alumni businesses. The level of development of these startups varies from the conceptual stage all the way to realizing revenues. The following is a list of the current businesses of the VDC.

Express Lunch Box is an app that allows users to order lunch from one of the most authentic Chinese restaurants in the area and pick up their orders at an on-campus delivery drop-off point, all from the convenience of their smart phones.

Uzer LLC is a marketing and technology firm committed to offering the most effective direct-to-student advertising services in the industry. We focus on creating and opening new channels of communication with college students, so that your targeted messages have the greatest possible impact on your business.

Donavan Trigg & Nishank Singh | MIS & Finance Majors

Matt Kroll | MBA Student

East Coast Float Spa is the largest center offering floatation therapy in the tri-state area. Floating is a holistic health treatment backed by decades of science that lets your body & mind achieve a whole new level of relaxation as you float, effortlessly, in your own private dead sea.

Nate Matheson & Matt Lenhard | Finance & Economics Majors

Lendedu.com is an online marketplace for private student loans and student loan consolidation. Think LendingTree for student loans. Nate & Matt are currently working with the Iowa Startup Accelerator in Cedar Rapids.

Antonino Piraino, Edwin Hernandez & Robert Richardson

Antrics is a fashion/apparel cause brand motivated by philanthropic beliefs that intergrate causes into products in order to assist in the eradication of some of the world's greatest problems.

Zachary Migliozzi

Founder of Throw Back

Throw Back Pro provides an innovative throwing aide aimed to serve as the only true functional throwing device to replicate throwing by supporting & optimizing throwing mechanics for athletes of all ages. Train to throw like a pro.

The Lerner College is home to a state-of-the-art financial trading facility, the $1.5 million student-led Blue Hen Investment Club, a student-managed restaurant and hotel, a high-technology development center of a global bank and a start-up experience for students with new business ideas.

Lerner College faculty - like Meryl Gardner, whose research on foods and moods was recently published in the Journal of Consumer Psychology - are thought leaders who command attention from influential business audiences, economists and policy makers.

All Lerner College departments offer discovery learning experiences and emphasize data-based analytics to enrich the student experience. Here, students at Vita Nova, our award-winning restaurant run through HRIM, joined professional chefs and winemakers in hosting a 2014 Mid-Atlantic Wine and Food Festival event.

The Institute for Financial Services Analytics is a collaboration between the Lerner College, UD's College of Engineering and JPMorgan Chase, and hosts events for academics and the business community designed to address consumer analytics and industry applications.

Undergraduate scholarships, made possible through the generosity of alumni and friends, enable us to support promising scholars. Here, Delaware Gov. Jack Markell and his mother, Leni Markell, join recipients of the William Markell Scholarship (center), which benefits students in Accounting and MIS.